From: whitely525@yahoo.co.uk
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Responsibility for ID fraud
Date: 6 May 2006 11:25:45 -0700
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>> (ii) write to your bank telling them you are only interested in using
>> their free-banking facilities and would never use them for any type of
>> credit.

>Impractical.  What if you want to change your mind?  What if a fraudster
>knows about this and pretends you changed your mind?

Well of course you don't tell anyone....

The point is as much to annoy the banks by letting them know you only
want to use them for free-banking, not all the other stuff they want to
foist on
you so they can actually make a profit.  Instead you will be pointedly
using
their competitors for these services.